Adding a domain you own to your DigitalOcean account lets you manage the domain’s DNS records with the control panel and API. Domains you manage on DigitalOcean also integrate with DigitalOcean Load Balancers and Spaces to streamline automatic SSL certificate management.
DigitalOcean does not currently provide domain registration services. To use DigitalOcean DNS, you need to register a domain name with a registrar and update your domain’s NS records to point to DigitalOcean’s name servers.
By default, you can add up to 50 domains. You can raise the limit by opening a support ticket and explaining why you need the increase.
All DNS records require a minimum TTL value of 30 seconds.
DigitalOcean DNS does not support the following CAA record features:
letsencrypt.org; abc=cde.Records created at a hostname covered by a wildcard record will stop wildcard resolution for that hostname. For example, if you have an A wildcard record at *.example.com, and you add an MX record at the hostname email.example.com, the A wildcard record will no longer be served at email.example.com. However, you can still add an explicit A record to the hostname email.example.com if your use case requires it.
DigitalOcean DNS does not support tags.
When adding domains or DNS records containing non-ASCII characters (such as accents or other Unicode characters), you must first convert them to Punycode.
DigitalOcean’s terms of service prohibit adding country code top-level domains (ccTLDs) from OFAC-sanctioned countries. For more information, including a list of countries, see section 5.7 of our Rules of Conduct in our terms of service.
DigitalOcean DNS does not support the creation of DNSSEC (DS) records.